Learning from the past: an introduction to eighteenth-century figured bass treatises
Keyboard players of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were expected to be proficient accompanists on all types of keyboard instrument, from organ to harpsichord and, later, fortepiano. Thomas Allery looks at original source material to gain insight into the performance practices of early music.
Practising & performing ARCO keyboard skills
Simon Williams provides guidance in this download on how to practice the ARCO keyboard skills, which include transposition, score reading, and harmonisation at sight, as well as improvisation, figured bass and sight-reading tests. He suggests useful material – music and books – to help take your studies further. Hints on practising & performing ARCO keyboard […]
11 December, 2015
